Masayuki Kawai

"Masayuki Kawai, born in 1972 in Osaka Japan, is a Tokyo-based video-artist and curator. He received his B.A. in Aesthetics from the University of Tokyo, and in 1999 founded the Video Art Center Tokyo. He is an active publisher and critic of contemporary video works. Since 2000, his own video art been shown internationally in Europe, the U.S. and Australia, as well as in the Far East."

http://masayukikawai.com/

http://www.youtube.com/user/masakawai1

http://www.vctokyo.org/en/

http://joltarts.org/all-artists/40-artists/264-masayuki-kawai-ryota-hamasaki

http://www.jcva.org/artist.asp?artistid=42&catid=1

http://www.shuhei2480.net/bio_e.htm

Adachi Video Synthesizer

here is a cute looking video processing unit made by Adachi Tomomi, there are two videos on his website here  

from his site 

"This is video equipment not for sound but it bases on electric musical idea treating video signal as sound signal. It works with video cameras and video monitor / video feedback system. The synthesizer has high frequency filters, signal mixer (not video mixer) and color adjuster. All of following video images is made by this system."